‘Dar Arab’ Publishing House Announces First Translations to English
Dar Arab also tweeted: “For this project / dream, the books were chosen as carefully as the translators … the road is long but we are natural-born runners.”
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3 Poems from Sillerman-shortlisted El Habib Louai
They got nothing except / Seven sheepskins on hard floors / The Sultan’s black and white photograph on blank walls / A guerba of goat skin full of well water / Broken jugs, hay-stuffed rucksack pillows & clay plates
Sonallah Ibrahim’s ‘Ice,’ tr. Margaret Litvin, Makes EBRD Longlist
The €20,000 prize is for both author and translator. Two runners-up and their translators will also receive a prize of €1,000 each.
‘Woman at Point Zero’ Opera Nominated for Fedora Prize
The €150,000 prize, awarded in June, goes toward the commission and production of the winning opera.
Free Translation Masterclass with ‘The Marilyn Booth’
“A broader issue within this is Arabic’s ‘place’ not only within a linguistic-literary globalized marketplace, but also within (mis)understandings and antagonisms generated by international politics and a long history of imperial relations, and the resulting sensitivity of translating or not translating certain terms.”
Sunday Submissions: The Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts
Gabo Prize winners receive $200 and publication in the next issue of Lunch Ticket.
Works by Mansoura Ez Eldin, Mamdouh Azzam, Moncef Ouhaïbi Make SZBA Literature Shortlist
According to organizers, a total of 1900 entries were subbed this year; 438 for the literature category, 498 for the young-author category, and 205 in children’s literature.
‘If I Hadn’t Written “Kobani,” I Would’ve Lost My Mind’
“The subjects, the structures, and the writing style are different between my Arabic books and Kurdish ones.”
Friday Finds: New Stories in Translation by Mazen Maarouf and Najwa Binshatwan
Herodotus had been around since 400 BC.
During the Benghazi bombings, he made a run for it.